Check-In Post January 1st 2021

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, Happy New Year and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


Today's Question: It's the start of a brand new year, so what are your 2021 crafting goals?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

I'm hoping to get at least three of my WiPs finished this year, and make some more arm warmers. Got to finish the 4 pairs waiting for sewing up too. I'd also like to fit in some cross stitching...

Finished knitting the first of my neighbour's arm warmers and started the second, so around 40 rows knitted.

[nagi_schwarz]

Congrats on getting the first arm-warmer done! Go you!

[froodle]

Armwarmers are so awesome - I used to have a couple of fleece ones that went almost to my armpits, fantastic for layering with a too-big tshirt for maximum coziness

[smallhobbit]

My goal is to do some form of craft every day. Today I did s little cross stitch and failed to do any knitting.

[badly_knitted]

Excellent goal, and you don't have to fit a bit of all your crafts into one day. Today was cross stitch, maybe tomorrow will be knitting. You can decide what to do when you're ready to craft.

[nagi_schwarz]

A little crafting every day is an excellent goal. You can do it!

[froodle]

That is a very cool goal! If i can figure out how to be a bit tidier with my crafting, I might try something similar

[nagi_schwarz]

I think my crafting goals this year are quite small - just to do the test squares for my illusion scarves - I started on the Stargate scarf piece and had to frog it like three times lol so it's already not going well.

Anything beyond that is gravy.

[darkcedars]

That's really frustrating (multiple frogs). :/

[smallhobbit]

That is very frustrating.

[badly_knitted]

I hope you'll be able to get the test pieces to work like you want them to.

[froodle]

I'd love to see a pic of the Stargate scarf once it's done!

[darkcedars]

After the 3 WIPs, I have 2 baby blankets to make. Most of the stuff after that is nebulous, but I want to make a Link hat for BIL's birthday in August.

I've been watching sales and now have bought yarn for both baby blankets. I didn't get as far as crafting. A storm dumped 5 inches of snow on us this morning & I had to shovel this afternoon.

[smallhobbit]

Sounds like you have plenty of options of what you can do.

Sometimes there are other priorities which can't helped.

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like you'll have plenty of crafting projects to keep you busy this year!

How annoying! I hate snow and we've got that forecast for this afternoon. I will not be shovelling anything though. With no heat indoors I can't afford to get cold outside.

[shopfront]

Swatched for a second set of mittens yesterday and quickly realised the yarn is alllll wrong and it was the same yarn line I was going to use for a scarf that also won't work how I though, but have instead found a lovely lace scarf that should work out okay in it instead I think. That'll teach me to buy pretty yarns on sale without thinking about the fibre content though.

This year I'm hoping to keep up the knitting and continue branching out into bigger projects and new techniques. If I could maintain my knitting trajectory from 2020 I'll be a very happy camper. I also have a bunch of embroidery things I bought late last year and still haven't put to use, and I want to work on my handsewing and mending skills.

[darkcedars]

That'll teach me to buy pretty yarns on sale without thinking about the fibre content

Ha, will it though?

My sewing skills are terrible. Another thing I should do this year is decide what in the sewing pile just needs to go.

[badly_knitted]

Oops! Ah well, the new adventurous project sounds like fun!

Those sound like excellent goals. You can do it!

[babs_bee]

My first goal is to finish all my WIPs--I think I have 4 at the moment.
I want to knit a beaded project (something I've never done before).
I want to spin more--aim for 15 minutes a day. However I've also decided that for the first week of 2021, I'm not making myself do anything. I want a week of doing next to nothing--or at least not planning anything.

[darkcedars]

I imagine 15 minutes can get a lot done on spinning. Even if one day is just sorting your materials and tools.

[badly_knitted]

Excellent!

A week off sounds like a good idea, recharge the batteries, get you ready to dive headlong into your WiPs and other projects. Good luck!

[moth2fic]

Finish the embroidery on a summer dress I abandoned because there was nowhere to go to wear it... Try nagi's tatted dragon pattern. Make next year's Christmas cards and some birthday cards too. Finish the rest of my Christmas place mats after hammering my sewing machine into submission. Learn more techniques in Photoshop from an online friend who is expert. (This is in between the writing commitments.)

[badly_knitted]

Wow! That's quite a list, I look forward to seeing your progress!

[pensnest]

Hi! I just found this comm, and I have always had some sort of craft activity on the go, so...

My goals for this year? Well, I don't usually have goals, just 'stuff I want to do', but this year it occurred to me that I could decorate my dining room windows for next yule, so that's a goal indeed, as there are more than a dozen. The plan is to create 'stained glass' frames to put over the windows. We shall see.

Other than that I shall finish the 'Bambara' shawl I'm currently knitting, and... well, I'm sure other knitting projects will step up and suggest themselves to me. I've been making good progress on using up the ancient stash in hats and twiddle muffs, and that will continue.

Also, I have a selection of knitting icons here if anyone is interested.

[badly_knitted]

Welcome to the community, it's lovely to meet you!

I do love the sound of your stained glass frames, I hope there will be pictures!

Good to have another knitter join us. I have a massive stash of yarn I'm hoping to put a dent in this year, making cosy sweaters but at the moment I'm knitting a lot of arm warmers, just simple ribbed tubes with a thumb hole. I wish I'd thought of this years ago, they're working out really well.

Good luck with finishing your shawl. Also thanks for the link to your knitting icons - I'll take a look once I've created your member tag.

[froodle]

This year I'd like to make beanie mashups for all the <A HREF="https://the-magnus-archives.fandom.com/wiki/The_Entities>Fear Entities</A> from the Magnus Archives. I have some ideas already, plus I would like to experiment with changing up the eyes on my creations this year and the Ceaseless Watcher leaves me a lot of scope to fuck around and find out...

[badly_knitted]

Sadly your link doesn't seem to be working =(

Still, I wish you luck with your mashups. Where do you keep them all?